Rochester Planning Board to hear Milton Road car dealer Monday

By Liz Markhlevskaya

lmark@fosters.com

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By Liz Markhlevskaya

lmark@fosters.com

Posted Jan. 6, 2013 at 3:15 AM

By Liz Markhlevskaya

lmark@fosters.com

Posted Jan. 6, 2013 at 3:15 AM

ROCHESTER — On Monday the Planning Board will hold a public hearing on Fairway Auto Sales’ application to establish a used automobile dealership on Milton Road, in the area of the Route 11 intersection.

Initially, plans included tearing down the existing single family home at the half-acre property and to build a new automobile sales and service facility.

However, during the last Planning Board workshop, Art Nickless, president of Norway Plains Associates engineering firm, expressed to the Planning Board that the owner of Fairway Auto Sales would like to start using the existing building at first, so that the dealership can begin operating sooner.

The initial plans submitted to the Planing Board several months ago required a City Council vote to abandon a portion of Old Milton Road located in the area of the proposed automobile dealership. It took months for the council to take that vote, Nickless explained, and in hopes of getting the dealership to start operating as soon as possible, he said the applicant would like to start using the existing building for approximately the next two years. After that, the existing home would be demolished through new plans presented to the Planning Board, and a new building would be constructed.

Nickless is expected to present the new site plans, showing use of the existing building, to the Planning Board on Monday.

Also Monday, the Planning Board will hold public hearings on two minor subdivisions, on Betts Road and Chamberlain Street.

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m., in the council chambers at the City Hall.